The story of Cupid and psyche statue is placed at the midpoint of Apuleius’s novel and occupies about one-fifth of its full length. The novel itself is the story of a first-person Lucius by a hero. Lucius is transformed into a donkey by magic, and through various trials and adventures, it finally regains the human form by eating a sacred rose to ISIS.

There are a number of similarities in Psyche’s story that are subject to a dangerous curiosity, punishment, test, and redemption in the favor of God.